“See Globally, Educate Globally”HGU has also introduced IT-intensive curricula, including the most advanced Geographical Information System (GIS) Center in Korea. The Ministry of Information and Communications of Korea awarded HGU excellence awards for pioneering and advancing the IT education for globalization in 2001 and 2002. In 1998, HGU was privileged to establish Handong Institute of Information Technology (HIIT) in Argentina.
In 1999, Handong Global University started its joint MBA program with the Institute of Finance and Economy at Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia. Currently, HGU is exploring a number of similar opportunities of cooperative educational ventures in other countries with the objective of meeting the needs of host countries and the region. In 2004, HGU opened the Uzbek-Korean MBA program under the ISTEDOD Foundation of the president of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
In 2001, HGU held the first Intellectual Properties (IP)-Information Technology (IT) International Conference, the first of its kind ever in Korea, with 22 outstanding speakers well versed in IP and IT laws and in business and education. The conference speakers included stellar figures, such as the Honorable Judge Zhipei Jiang of the Supreme Court of China in charge of the chamber responsible for international trade, technology and intellectual property, and Dean G. Robert Johnston of the John Marshall Law School, noted for introducing the Center for Excellence in IP, IT, and IBT (International Business and Trade).
The First International Law School in Asia Opened at HGU
The IP-IT Conference was followed by the establishment of Handong International Law School (HILS) in 2001 to meet the compelling need for Korea and Asia to globalize Asian legal education. HGU foresaw that Asia needed to become more global in the legal field and educate a new generation of Asians in law. HGU would equip them not only to serve their own peoples and nations, but also their neighbors and the world because the world has now become a global village. We can no longer live alone, isolated from others.
For strategic and practical reasons, HILS has started with the
U.S. Law School curriculum taught in English and is preparing students
for the BAR examinations and licenses in the U.S., jointly with
several U.S. law schools. HILS has a multinational student body
with religious beliefs from Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, and
those practicing Confucianism. The student population is drawn from
8 different countries: China, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan,
Palestine, India, and the United States. HILS students are trained
to become global lawyers by having them study international and
U.S. laws, anticipating that they will also study laws of their
own land and country. The HILS curriculum includes courses that
will assist them to become global in their outlook. It also trains
them to be people of honesty, integrity, and character, to enable
them to serve with justice, mercy, and in humility in order to promote
peace and the rule of law in the land where they will serve.
